Rudimental
Mapping

within Mary
Baker Eddy's Structure
for
Scientific and Spiritual
Development

The textbook of Christian
Science, by Mary Baker Eddy, is made up of 16 chapters. Mary Baker Eddy's presentation of the Lord's Prayer,
her illustrated poem Christ and Christmas, and even the Church Manual are all
divided into sixteen parts. If you regard this pattern as a coincidence, read no further. However, if you like explore the
pattern, exploring what Mary Baker Eddy had evidently found important, then
you might want to consider the presentation, below.

The presentation contains the 16
element matrix represented by the City Foursquare. Mary Baker Eddy described
this city in terms of 4 "cardinal points"
shown in green, described
in
the chapter the Apocalypse. Cardinal points
are the crucial main points. These, logically pertain horizontally to
different levels of the matrix. A matrix structure also represents specific
types of flow or upwards development, such as scientific spiritual development.

In this regard one finds the 4 biblical
rivers from Genesis 2 described by Mary Baker Eddy in the textbook's Glossary.All
these give us a basic architectural definition for our foursquare matrix.
After all, a matrix is really nothing
more than a scientific structure for exploring interrelationships. Its
architecture must therefore be predefined. By intersection of the so defined
rows and columns, one can also recognize a predefined characteristic of the 16 elements in some basic fashion.

Of all the structures
that are made up of 16 elements, only three have been chosen for the following exploration.
You find them represented in the chart below.

These
are the 16 chapters of the Christian Science textbook,the 16 illustrated
verses of Christ and Christmas,and the 16 stanzas of the Lord's Prayer presented by Mary Baker Eddy.

The matrix shown below
gives the titles of thetextbook
chapters, shown in pink,
and the
titles of theillustrative
paintings in Christ and Christmas, shown in orange. You may click on the painting titles to view the
illustrative painting and verses of the poem.

Please note: some paintings
have two verses associated with them. In these cases, the paintings present two distinct
scenes, identified as part 1 and part 2 that are interrelated by the logical framework of the
painting. I am certain, you will find the interrelationships interesting.

The
applicable sections of the Church Manual are shown in black.
Also note, that the stanzas of the Lord's Prayer and the Verses from Christ and
Christmas (not shown here) are mapped in a similar manner in the order of the
numbers shown in each square.

As you may have
noticed, the 16 textbook chapters, and the 16 elements from Christ and
Christmas, have been sequentially applied applied to the matrix, but in a unique
manner.

The pattern for applying them has been chosen to match the logical characteristic of
a structure that represents four distinct zones of an upwards unfolding
development, according to Mary Baker Eddy's definition for the four rivers shown
in the chart below.

To find the
roots of the science underlying the lesson format, one needs to go
back in time some 2700 years to a development that started in the
mountains of Greece centuries before the Christian era began. Isolated
tribes were scattered through the region, shackled by a mythology that
defined the human being as impotent. It cannot be determined whether
or not this region became transformed because of a perceived need for
its self-defense against the unfolding empires of the time. We
only know that it was transformed as the people found a new identity
for themselves through scientific development.

The
foundation for this change was laid by Homer who had established a
vastly enriched language, presented through poetry, that enabled the
people to deal with complex ideas. The resulting development was
almost explosive. In a few centuries the Greece of primitive mountain
tribes became the scientific and cultural center of the world, with
its famous University of Athens, and such leading edge philosophic
pioneers as Socrates and Plato. This explosive scientific development,
of course, was echoed throughout the entire Mediterranean region,
especially in Egypt. The Christian era, in turn, began near the end of
this development period, possibly at its high point.

In a very
real sense, Christianity is rooted in the Greek Classical culture of a
developing scientific understanding. At the end of Christ Jesus'
period, one of his disciples summed up in metaphor what he has seen
and experienced, and could foresee as the inevitable outcome of the
continued scientific and spiritual development of humanity. This
extrapolation into the future, of expected developments according to
perceived fundamental laws, became the book of Revelation, sometimes
called, the Apocalypse.

In modern
times the Apocalypse is widely regarded as a document that prophesies
the end of civilization and humanity as a whole. But if one
looks closer at what St. John actually wrote, one will recognize that
he predicted the end of all evil instead the end of humanity, and that
he predicted the inevitable end of evil as the lawful outcome of
humanity's continuing scientific and spiritual self-development. The
most direct reference to this trend is found in Revelation 21, where
the Apostle John describes a city foursquare descending from God out
of heaven. A geometric structure that is four-square, of course
represents a four-square matrix structure. Such a structure enables
one to explore complex interrelationships and precisely defined flows
of development in an orderly scientific process.

It is
reasonable to assume that St. John's metaphor of the city four-square
was understood at his time, and that this understanding became lost
during the intervening centuries of the dark ages. It is also
reasonable to assume that The Apostle John's metaphor would not be
recognized until a new period of scientific development would
occur, such as the scientific revolution that unfolded in the 19th
century, especially in the revolutionary states of the New World. This
is the environment in which Mary Baker Eddy grew up, in which she
rediscovered the science of Christ Healing which Christ Jesus had
exemplified. On would expect, therefore, that St. John's
metaphor would also be recognized again. Indeed, this is what
has happened, because every major work of Mary Baker Eddy is built on
John's structure, as its foundation.

As a
four-square structure, the city foursquare is made up of sixteen
elements. Every one of Mary Baker Eddy's major works is accordingly
divided into sixteen parts or multiple of sixteen parts. This did
certainly not occur by chance. The Christian Science textbook, for
instance, is made up of 16 chapters, the Church Manual is made up of
16 parts, Mary Baker Eddy's scientific presentation of the Lord's
Prayer is made up of 16 stanzas, and her illustrated poem, Christ
and Christmas, which is a major statement in metaphor, is made up
of sixteen verses. And all of this is just the beginning. The
Platform of Christian Science is made up of 32 parts (2x16), and even
the Glossary of the textbook follows this pattern, which contains 144
(9x16) definitions of terms.

Naturally,
all of the above is related to the Christian Science Bible lessons.
The Bible lessons are made up of biblical citations, followed by
correlative citations from the Christian Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. Since the
16 textbook chapters are an integral part of the 16 element foursquare
matrix structure for scientific development, each textbook citation of
the Bible lesson, therefore relates to a specific element of this 16
element structure. By this correlation, the depth of meaning, of
the selected citation, becomes greatly enhanced.

The Bible
lessons, presented on this Web-site have the vital correlation
included. For the sake of simplicity, only three major
structures are correlated within the Bible Lesson presentation. The
format in which the specific elements are presented, as they pertain
to a textbook citation, is shown in the example below.

Forever
present, bounteous, free,
Christ comes in gloom;
And aye, with grace towards you and me,
For health makes room.

Give us this
day our daily bread.

The first
line, shown in red, presents the textbook chapter that a chosen
citation belongs to. The text in the frame below presents the
correlative element from Mary Baker Eddy's book, Christ and Christmas,
and the correlative element of the Lord's Prayer. From Christ
and Christmas the correlative verse and the title of its associated
painting are shown. You may click on the title to see the
painting itself. You may also click on the chapter title the link to
the textbook chapter.

These
correlative texts link the textbook chapter, the metaphor from Christ
and Christmas, and the Lord's Prayer, to each other.

Since these
three structures are each made up of 16 parts, they must be deemed to
pertain to the sixteen element matrix foursquare. It becomes
important, therefore, that one also identify which matrix position a
specific citation belongs to. The correlative matrix position is
indicated to the left of the four line verse from Christ and
Christmas.

The format
of the Bible lesson presentation also includes another correlation,
when applicable. The chapter Recapitulation of the textbook is made up
of 24 groups of questions and answers. The 24 groups evidently
represent the 16 element matrix and definitions for its columns and
rows. This correlation is not included in the reference text but
is described in Volume 3 of the research series, Discovering
Infinity. It has been further recognized that these 24
groups of questions and answers do actually cover 26 topics,
corresponding to the 26 topics that Mary Baker has provided for the
Bible lessons. It has been further recognized that the first
part of the Glossary definition for the name Adam contains exactly 26
elements which uniquely match the 26 topics addressed in the chapter
Recapitulation. This specific correlation greatly enhances the lesson
text, and is therefore included as a heading in front of citations
from the chapter, Recapitulation.

In addition
to all this, Mary Baker Eddy's marginal headings, which she has
assigned to paragraphs and groups of paragraphs, are also shown in
front of the textbook citations. These are enclosed in brackets.

The Bible
lessons, themselves, begin with a short Golden Text from the Bible,
followed by a section of biblical texts that are read alternatively
from the desk and by the congregation during the Christian Science
Sunday services. The rest of the Bible lessons is divided up
into up to eight sections. Each section is made up of a number
of biblical citations which are followed by correlative citations from
the textbook. As indicated before, these correlative citations from
the textbook furnish the link to the matrix foursquare which opens up
a depth of meaning that enhances spiritual and scientific development
and makes the Bible lessons constantly richer as this inner scientific
development is taking place.